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FOREIGN NOTICES. 



Juctions of our kitchen gnrdeiiB will equal in excellence those of the fruit nud flower garden 

 There arc no finer Grapes in the world than the English ; no country ftpproaches us in decorative 

 gardening. ^VlJy, then, can we not have Cabbages, and Letluces, and Celery, roots of all sort«, 

 and lierbs of all sorfc*, equally worthy of Englishmen ? Surely the country gardeners, who are 

 most concerned in this que-tion, have the same energy as those of London ; the spirit of emula- 

 tion cannot but be as strong in the provinces as in the suburbs of a great metropolis; and wo 

 will not believe, till the experiment now in jirogress shall have faileil, which will never ha[>])en, 

 that a kitchen garden is the limbo to which all the blockheads of horticulture arc specially 

 consigned. 



"On Tuesday, the 24th of May, nieiLils are offered for the 'best collection of vegetables.' It 

 concerns the honor of giirdencrs that tliese prizes siiall be well contested. Another opi)ortunity 

 occurs on the 28lh of June, and a thiivl on the 2Gth July ; and there are now olfcred, in addition 

 to the Society's medals, two prizes, of three guineas and two guineas eacli, to the gardeners who, 

 having exhibited English produce on each occasion, shall be found to stund highest at the end of 

 the tiiird meetinjr." 



The Exhibition of the London Ilorticultural Society on the 14tli of May last was one of 

 the most hrilliant tliat has ever been held tlierc in the spring. "We copy below what tlie 

 Gardeners' Chronicle says of it, and extract from the detailed account of objects exhibited 

 the parts relating to Azaleas^ Jihododendrons^ Hoses, and Pelargoniums — plants of the most 

 general interest on this side of the water : 



" Azaleas nearly filled one side of a long tent ; and as the plants were large and extremely well 

 flowered, the effect of such a bank of floral beauty, of almost every tint and color, may well be 

 conceived. Mrs. LAWKEXfE sent twelve excellent plant?, consisting of Perryana, Gledstanesi, 

 Rawsoni, Duke of Devonshire, Grenville, Double Red, variegata, maerantha purpurea, sinensis, 

 Broughtoni, decora, and triumphans. In the class of six varieties, Mr. Carson sent variegata, 

 Double Red, lateritia, Smithi coecinea, speciosissima, and Broughtoni. Messrs. Fbaser had speci- 

 osissima, Minerva, sinensis, Smithi coecinea. Double Red, and violaeea superba. Messrs. Lane 

 produced punctata, lateritia, and variegata (united in one plant), mirabilis, pietui-ata. Double Red, 

 and speciosissima. Mr. Falconer, of Cheam, contributed magna, variegata, Bianca, Rawsoni, 

 Falconer!, and lateritia; and finally, Mr. Over sent prsestantissima, Murrayana, the pale variety 

 of sinensis, optima, carnea, and formosa elegans. Newer kinds in 8-inch pots were furnished by 

 Messrs. Taylor, Rollisson, and Lane. The best of these were Iveryana, white, occasionally 

 striped with pink ; Grieswoodiana, impressa, a semi-double variety of magnifiea, perfeeta elegans, 

 obbata, and Jenkinsoni superba; none of them, however, except Iveryana, could be said to equal 

 either in shape or appearance, to such sorts as Perryana, or even older kinds than that. 



"RnoDODENDRONs. — ^Thcsc were well exhibited by Messrs. Ivison, Gaines, and Lane, and con- 

 stituted by no means an unimportant feature of the show. It may be interesting to know that 

 the spotted white and rose-colored sorts sent by Mr. Ivison, and which were so much admired, 

 were part of the same batch of seedlings raised at Sion from which the fine varieties Cliveanum, 

 Perryanum, Sionense, and Duchess of Northumberland originated, and to which they bear con- 

 siderable resemblance, one of them being more distinctly marked than Cliveanum, and another 

 producing even finer trusses of flowers than that variety. The group contained a scarlet one, 

 which appeared to be an improvement on alta-clerense in point of color. We understand that 

 owing to the lateness of the present season, the whole of these fine hybrids have escaped the 

 frosts, and are flowering out of doors quite liniujured at Sion. Mr. Gaines had aureum, perpu- 

 reura, floribundun, magnifieum, roseum majus, and maeulatum album. Of these magnificura is 

 a nice light kind, with compact heads of flowers, which are richly spotted in the upper petals with 

 deep crimson. Messrs. Lane sent a large plant of Gibsoni alias formosa, which, however, suffered 

 much in the course of the day from the coldness of the wind. They also showed a good yellow 

 called Aureum superbum ; Delicatum, a pink sort, spotted in the upper petals with yellow; 

 Primulinum elegans, a good yellow; Jenkinsoni, pink with orange spots; and Aureum. 



